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Those familiar with the 1990s film series “Back to the Future'' know what a flux capacitor is, a fictional time machine enabler. Our next guest however, has developed research involving metabolic flux analysis that won them the most recent Innovision small business award. Mike Switzer interviews Greg Springsteen, professor of chemistry at Furman University in Greenville, SC and co-founder of Aconabolics, LLC.

Our state is one of only a few that now has more people employed than before the pandemic. In fact, the latest numbers are the highest in South Carolina’s history. What are we doing that is “working” so well? Mike Switzer interviews Daniel Ellzey, executive director of the SC Department of Employment and Workforce (SC DEW).

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John tells us about an entrepreneurial effort from nonprofit Feed and Seed, an organization addressing the food desert problem in Greenville, SC.

Listeners report large numbers of white pelicans stopping in South Carolina.

Western species of hummingbirds are now showing up in South Carolina in the winter.

The Chinese (or Asiatic) mantis (Tenodera sinensis) is a species of mantis native to Asia and the nearby islands. In 1896 this species was accidentally introduced by a nurseryperson at Mt. Airy near Philadelphia, United States. Tenodera sinensis feeds primarily on other insects, though adult females sometimes catch small vertebrates. For example, they have been observed feeding on hornets, spiders, grasshoppers, katydids, small reptiles, amphibians, and even hummingbirds.

Imagine, for a moment, Mozart walking down Broadway, in New York City. It’s not so easy. But Lorenzo da Ponte, who wrote the librettos for Mozart’s operas Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Così fan tutte, died a New Yorker.

The composer Ernest Bloch was born in Switzerland, and after spending time in America, he was thinking of returning to Europe. But a visit in 1922 to the Library of Congress, in Washington DC, convinced Bloch to stay in this country, and to take American citizenship.

Maurice Ravel was certainly a composer who pushed boundaries, including the technical boundaries that musicians faced when performing his music.

Pococera robustella, the pine webworm moth, is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae. It is found in southern Canada and the eastern United States from Minnesota to New England and south to Florida.The larvae feed on the needles of various Pinus species. Young larvae mine the needles of their host plant. Later, they spin a nest of silk webbing and frass. They gather needles from around their nest and bring them back to the nest to eat. The web is occupied by several larvae.